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8.6 IBM Platform Symphony family

IBM Platform Symphony family is an enterprise-class grid manager for running
distributed application services on a scalable, shared, heterogeneous grid. It
accelerates various compute and data-intensive applications, quickly computes
results while it uses the optimal available infrastructure. The IBM Platform
Symphony efficient low-latency middleware and scheduling architecture are
designed to provide the performance and agility that are required to predictably
meet and exceed throughput goals for the most demanding analytic workloads.
Designed for reliability and having advanced management features, IBM Platform
Symphony helps organizations realize improved application performance at a
reduced total cost of ownership. IBM Platform Symphony can help you achieve
the following goals:
Obtain higher-quality business results faster.
Reduce infrastructure and management costs.
Combine compute-intensive and data-intensive applications on a single
shared platform.
IBM Platform Symphony runs on various hardware and operating environments,
including the latest generation of System x servers. By pre-qualifying and
certifying these platforms in large-scale environments, you take the risk out of
deploying mission-critical grid computing applications.
IBM Platform Symphony offers the following features:
Ultra-fast, low-latency grid scheduler (less than 1-millisecond overhead).
Scalable to 10,000 cores per application and 40,000 cores per cluster.
Heterogeneous application and platform support.
Unique resource sharing model that enables lending and borrowing for
maximum efficiency.
Optimized, low latency MapReduce implementation.
Support of compute-intensive and data-intensive problems on a single shared
grid of resources.
Figure 8-7 on page 233 shows an overview of the elements of IBM Platform
Symphony.
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